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Democratic Republic of Congo wants UN sanctions against top Rwandan generals for backing a rebellion against the Kinshasa government.

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DR Congo Foreign Minister Raymond Tshibanda said there was still a “war
situation” between the two neighbours over the rebellion even though tensions
have eased.

He called for boosting the UN peacekeeping force in the huge central
African nation so it can monitor the border between the rivals.

Rwanda has strongly denied backing the M23 militia who launched a rebellion in
the east of the country in April. But a panel of UN sanctions experts has cited
“overwhelming evidence” of Rwandan backing for the mutineers.

“We are in a situation of aggression in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, aggression by the Republic of Rwanda,” Tshibanda told a press
conference at UN headquarters.

He said UN Security Council sanctions should be taken against “foreign
personalities” mentioned in the June experts report as having helped the M23
rebels, but did not name the individuals.

At a Security Council meeting on Wednesday, however, Tshibanda
highlighted the names of Rwanda’s
defence minister, General James Kabarebe, chief of staff Lieutenant General
Charles Kayonga and other generals identified by the UN experts.

“The implication of high-ranking officials serving in a foreign army in
support of a rebellion constitutes an act of aggression that the Security
Council must recognize under Chapter VII of the UN Charter,” he added at the
meeting with the Security Council.

The leaders of countries in the Great Lakes
region, which includes the two rivals, have agreed in principle to set up a
“neutral force” to monitor the Rwanda-DR Congo border and hunt the militias in
eastern DR Congo.

Tshibanda told reporters that leaders wanted the mandate of the UN
peacekeeping force in DR Congo, known as MONUSCO, to be strengthened so that it
could take up the task.

Although he did not call for extra forces, he said MONUSCO’s Security
Council mandate should be changed and special forces should replace some of the
current peacekeepers to monitor the border.

UN diplomats have expressed scepticism about the proposed force.

Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo also spoke with UN sanctions
experts this week and complained that their evidence was biased.

Tshibanda said that while he had been in New York at the same time as the Rwandan
minister, they had not held talks.